Mo. seeks businesses to expand high-speed Internet with stimulus - St. Louis Business Journal:

Missouri wants to hire businesses for a project that will use hundreds of millions in stimulus dollars to expand high-speed, broadband Internet access statewide.

The MoBroadbandNow project envisions a fiber-optic broadband backbone that will connect every cluster of 50 or more dwellings, as well as “anchor institutions” such as schools and hospitals, with high-speed broadband Internet access...